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self-centered nature; yet it may be found, too, with
those who have been neglected in early youth, and
who have formed the habit of morbid self-depreciation.
I have known a successful and broad-minded
business man, to be hypersensitive regarding the
small things of life, and to imagine he was "neglected"
and "slighted" if a friend passed him, absorbed in
thought, with only an ordinary salutation. But this
man had been an orphan boy, living a lonely childhood among people who fed and clothed him, but
who ofttimes made him realize that he was not an
important factor in their lives.
So he had shaped his mind to gloomy thoughts of
neglect, and after he became important to the lives of
many people, and a man of large affairs and wide interests, still his brain continued to work in the old
groove, and he was "easily offended."
More frequently, however, this fault is associated
with the selfish and the vain, who find no happiness
unless given the center of life's stage, and with the full
force of the calcium light thrown upon them. And if
one individual in the audience looks at any other of
God's company for a brief moment, then they are
"offended" and want to resign from the role and compel the curtain to ring down.
Difficult, indeed, is life with such people; and therefore the motto which bids us to be "not easily offended"
should be written in letters of light and hung where all
may read. Love your friends, trust them, believe in
them; and when any events arise which seem inconsistent with such belief, wait an explanation before
becoming offended.
In nine cases out of ten the explanation will be
forthcoming; for if you yourself are a worth-while, valuable
